James Spence
1816–93
Iron merchant and writer on political subjects. Resident of Liverpool, living at 32 Falkner Square South, 1861, and 10 Abercromby Square, 1871. Author of works advocating the cause of the Confederate states in the American Civil War, 1861–4. Lived in London, 1881, 1891.
Sources
CDEL
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2174/281/36), 1861 (RG9/2686/97/41), 1871 (RG10/3783/66/20), 1881 (RG11/30/27/ 31), 1891 (RG12/21/95/76)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 30 August 2018)
NUC.
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.
